The goal of this project is to examine patterns in author diversity (gender/geographic) in coral reef publications over the past 15 years. We selected a range of peer-reviewed scientific journals across different impact factors and levels (incl. Conservation Letters, PNAS, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Coral Reefs, PlosOne, Marine Policy, Marine Biology, Frontiers in Marine Science, Nature, Science). A team of global coral reef scientists reviewed these articles and extracted relevant data on research area, geography, authorship, and gender.
Notes for co-authors to consider are in bold purple
This study considered 1695 unique studies published between 2003 and 2019. This dataset represents works by 5289 unique authors from 358 different countries
The number of unique authors is going to be wrong as names were not standardized between databases). We need to decide whether we want to spend time cleaning this or not. Variations include Last,First; First Last; Last, First Initial
Figure 1. Growth in coral reef publications over the last 15 years
Research was conducted in 95 countries and 18 territories. The most studied countries were Australia (n=459) and United States (n=238).
Figure 2. Geographic distribution of study countries
This one needs the legend to look nicer
Figure 2 (alternate). Geographic distribution of study countries with discrete breaks
Figure X. Gender distribution by country of affiliation. (A) First, last, and single author gender distribution for top two countries. (B) Proportion of authorship for top two countries. (C) First, last, and single, author gender distribution for all other countries. (D) Proportion of authorship for all other countries
Figure 3. Distribution of research effort over marine realms
| id | n |
|---|---|
| Central Indo-Pacific | 694 |
| Tropical Atlantic | 333 |
| Eastern Indo-Pacific | 203 |
| Western Indo-Pacific | 151 |
| Temperate Northern Atlantic | 51 |
| Temperate Australasia | 46 |
| Tropical Eastern Pacific | 43 |
| Temperate Northern Pacific | 37 |
| Temperate Southern Africa | 4 |
| Southern Ocean | 1 |
| Temperate South America | 1 |
Research topics were wide-ranging.
Not even sure if this is useful, removed common words such as “coral" and "reef” to get a better picture of what about coral reefs was being studied. This is mapping the frequency of words (excluding stopwords) from the title and abstracts.
Figure X. Wordcloud of frequent words appearing in titles and abstracts
## Warning: Removed 2 rows containing missing values (geom_point).
Figure X. How often papers authored by different total proportions of gender representation were cited